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Beatrice

Choreography by Richard Wagner
Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams (Fantasy on a Theme of Thomas Tallis)
Libretto by Suggested by Maurice Maeterlinck's play Soeur Beatrice
Lighting by Nananne Porcher

World Premiere

Ballet Theatre Workshop
May 11, 1964
Hunter College Playhouse
New York, New York

Cast:
Hester Fitzgerald (Beatrice)
Joseph Carow (Prince Pellidor)
Mary Stone (Abbess)
Karena Brock (Statue of the Virgin)
Peter Saul (Priest)
Karen Krych (Sister Eglantine)
Gillian Orpin (Sister Clemency)
Victoria Leigh (Sister Regina)
Rosanna Seravalli (Sister Balbine)